and alumni of the diocesan seminary of Rome on the eve of the feast day of their patroness The Capranica College is the oldest Roman college founded in the 15th century by Cardinal Domenico Capranica and forms seminarians mostly from Rome and the rest of Italy and students in the Clementine Hall on Monday Pope Francis noted that this diversity embodies the universal and multifaceted nature of the Holy People of God “Don’t forget the holy faithful People of God and don’t forget what theology says: the holy faithful People of God are ‘infallible in credendo’.” Recalling that the name attributed to the College “Almo” means “that which nourishes” or “that which gives life” in ancient Italian and referencing a passage from Dante Alighieri’s 'Divine Comedy' the Pope likened the Roman seminary to a nourishing environment that sustains spiritual growth provided iits students remain focused and do not stray from their vocation one can be ‘well-nourished’ if one does not lose one’s way by ‘wandering aimlessly’,” he said.  Central to his reflection was the need for priests and seminarians to maintain four essential relationships: with God ensure ministers do not “wander aimlessly” in their journey of faith The Pope also urged them to fully embrace synodality already in their formation heeding the recent Synod’s call for spiritual renewal and a more participatory and missionary Church attuned to the needs of all Thanking the College for its liturgical contributions to the Papal Basilica of St he further called on them to show the same “closeness” to the people they minister in the liturgy "There is no Christian liturgy if the gestures we perform are not matched by a life of faith which serves as a concrete expression of Christian love This service to the poor and marginalized helps avoid losing sight of their mission emphasizing the importance of a personal relationship with the poor “It is not so much the alms that are important Pope Francis invoked the intercession of Mary Salus Populi Romani (Protectress of the Roman People) and St Thank you for reading our article. 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Cloud Fire Rescue Department initially by overseeing professional standards and logistics which will ensure greater safety and cost efficiency for the department He began his career in fire service over 30 years ago while he was still in high school During his time there he was a charter member of Osceola County’s special operations team confined space rescue and other emergency response technical disciplines to that department; that experience proved helpful during the deadly tornado outbreak and wildfires that affected Osceola County in 1998 Cloud after working as a Mitigation Manager in Pasco County Emergency Management Ristau will ensure city emergency responders carry and maintain certifications and will coordinate with County Emergency Management officials to plan for incidents in order to minimize loss of life and damage to property The city notes Ristau carries a Master's degree in emergency and disaster management and has experience responding to everything from sinkholes to 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doing auditory research Capranica joined the Cornell faculty in 1969 as an associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior He made a name for himself with his 1965 seminal book "The Evoked Response of the Bullfrog: A Study of the Communication by Sound," based on his doctoral work which has had a lasting impact on the field of bioacoustics research and behavioral neuroscience he was regarded as an outstanding field naturalist and an expert in animal sound communication along with his colleagues at MIT and Bell labs were among the first electrical engineers to enter what was then the fledgling field of modern neuroscience His groundbreaking studies included work on the neural basis of auditory communication in frogs and toads Students and colleagues also regarded Capranica as first-rate teacher who taught neurophysiological techniques He also served as acting chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (1972-73); was an editor for the Journal of Comparative Physiology; and was president of the International Society for Neuroethology in 1985 The society now sponsors the Robert Capranica Prize an annual award that honors the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in neuroethology -- a branch of science that seeks to understand the neural basis of natural animal behavior Cornell's Department of Neurobiology and Behavior created a Robert Capranica Endowment at the time of his retirement in 1993 the department also announced the appointment of the first Robert R a new assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior who will start in September His colleagues recall Capranica as a man of great vitality Get Cornell news delivered right to your inbox This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Via Francigena F.A.Q © Associazione Europea delle Vie Francigene | C.F. 91029880340 – P.IVA 02654910344 Powered by ItinerAria Privacy | Cookie Policy  | Legal Notice  © Associazione Europea delle Vie Francigene | C.F Powered by ItinerAria the Allies began arriving in Rome to free the capital from the Nazi grip the Capranica-Civitavecchia-Orte railroad continued its operations undaunted although it was limited to a reduced flow of passengers and freight The conflict involved the railroad in wartime actions by the Allies aimed at destroying bridges in order to hinder the retreat of German troops The bridge that spanned the Mignone River suffered a devastating aerial bombardment that compromised one of the masonry arches making it impossible for trains to pass through until 1947 From the 1950s the railways began to consider it as a marginal sector reducing the number of daily runs and maintenance activities a landslide crossed the Civitavecchia-Capranica section many were the proposals for a restoration that was never carried out.Today or retrace it along a very popular trekking route to be traveled on foot or on a mountain bike which runs along the route of the old railroad and has become something of a hiking classic for locals traveling with difficulty and exploring the world from the window admiring centuries-old olive trees and getting off from time to time The railway ran through one of the richest areas from an archaeological point of view in the entire region of Latium The most significant historical evidence belongs to the Etruscan civilization but there are also traces of life during the Roman and medieval eras the Scaglia: an Etruscan necropolis dating from the 6th-5th centuries B.C in which simple single-chamber burial tombs show structures fashioned to house beds and funerary objects Continuing for another fifteen kilometers we would arrive at Palano - Ripa Maiale The Palano area has revealed a rich collection of artifacts dating back to the Middle Paleolithic testifying to the presence of ancient populations between 200,000 and 35,000 years ago preserved mainly at the Allumiere Civic Museum include tools made by chipping siliceous limestone one can observe cave shelters and under rock shelters that were probably adapted and used by archaic populations founded by Pope Leo IV in 853 to offer refuge to the inhabitants who fled Centumcellae after the Saracen invasion it dominated the Mignone valley to the sea It was probably an inhabited center even in Roman times it had about 800 inhabitants and relied on agriculture animal husbandry and to a small extent fishing the construction of the Civitavecchia - Capranica - Orte railway in 1928 destroyed one of its churches and left signs of its fortified towers and walls Pre-Unitarian Italy had a railway history characterized by significant delays compared to industrialized nations such as France and England The Unstoppable Industrial Revolution exerted pressure for accelerated modernization of states promoting the adoption of liberal structures and technological progress remained largely confined to the former Lombardy-Venetia Kingdom when the Unification of Italy was achieved A close look at the political and economic landscape of the time reveals the contrast between Risorgimento ideals and conservative forces represented in particular by the Papal States the railroad not only symbolized technological progress but also embodied the ideals of national unity and independence proposals for the establishment of a railroad network in the ecclesiastical state had been submitted to Pope Gregory XVI with the aim of connecting important cities such as Rome and Civitavecchia these proposals met with hostility from conservative clergy who saw modernization as a threat to their traditions and power Things changed significantly with the ascension to the papacy of Pius IX in 1849 His willingness to explore new frontiers and embrace change was manifested when he accepted King Ferdinand II of Bourbon’s invitation to personally experience the train on the Naples-Portici line This symbolic gesture not only marked a turning point in relations between the Church and technological progress but also laid the groundwork for a significant change in attitudes toward the railroad as an engine of modernization Pius IX’s trip aboard the train and his visit to the locomotive factory at Pietrarsa represented a bold step toward the adoption of railway technology and the event marked the beginning of a process of slow but necessary open-mindedness and adaptation to the demands of modernity paving the way for new opportunities for connection economic development and social transformation that the idea was born to build a transversal line that would connect the ports of Civitavecchia and Ancona was not presented until 1907 by Valentino Peggion and Nicola Petrucci with the help of engineer Carlo Carega and the line would have grafted onto the pre-existing Capranica- Ronciglione line Construction work on the Civitavecchia - Capranica - Orte began in 1922 and from the very beginning there were endless problems about the accidentality and quality of the terrain to be crossed which led to its closure after World War II It was noticed from its inauguration in 1929 that this would not be a railway line destined for greatness and it was precisely because of the terrain so uneven and clayey that it was preferred to handle only local passenger and freight traffic it was decided to discontinue First Class travel the flow of passengers was mainly delineated as a fabric of rural commuting arising from the railroad’s inescapable need to cross and join isolated regions where the lack of roads was an undeniable fact It took a full 10 years after the operational start of the railway line for work to finally get underway to give shape to the much-needed electrification project which had already been envisioned in the 1917 alternative plan the implementation of these works resulted only in the creation of a high-voltage power line connecting Civitavecchia to Orte runs parallel and often a short distance from the railroad along with local facilities designed to accommodate the electrical substations at Monteromano and Capranica The aspiration for modern rail electrification resulted in a limited reality that only highlighted the challenges and complexities involved in implementing an advanced and sustainable transportation system Following its intricate historical patterns will now make it easier to continue the journey and get back on that train We could imagine getting off at Allumiere station where It is the oldest sanctuary in the Tolfa Mountains Augustine stayed here for a long time during the period when he composed his second Rule and began writing “De Trinitate.” A little further on our route will open up La Farnesiana a hamlet developed around a water mill built in the 16th century in the Campaccio valley it was inhabited by religious men who also ran the mill the hamlet and mill were abandoned and later became a farm to produce grain and raise livestock for miners working in the nearby quarries The church of Santa Maria della Farnesiana was built in 1836 and then dedicated to the Immaculate Conception in 1877 The village has retained its original appearance but the church is now in ruins and in danger of collapse One will have to continue for another long kilometers precisely 23 from the first station of departure Located on a tuffaceous stronghold overlooking the Mignone River this site has evidence dating back to the Neolithic and continuing into the Bronze Age The settlement was abandoned around 1300 because of the plague Luni was the subject of systematic excavations by the Swedish Institute in the 1960s and includes finds such as a hut carved into the tuff and ancient graffiti on a cave It also offers an extraordinary panoramic view of the Mignone River valley which began as an Etruscan town and became a Roman municipality that played a very important role between Longobard Tuscia and Rome It continued to have relevance in the Middle Ages which crossed the Via Clodia over the Biedano ditch dating back 2,500 years and built of dry-walled peperino blocks and it is precisely because of this millennia-old solidity that it would seem to have been built by the devil himself we would soon find ourselves in Barbarano Romano which has a medieval settlement enclosed between the Biedano ditch and one of its tributaries and retains its original urban appearance while an ancient fortification protects its undefended side among different histories and places connected thanks to this stretch of railroad ends the explorer may think of actually carrying it out We have the address for the funeral home & the family on file If you're not happy with your card we'll send a replacement 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He was a husband to Kathy Lynch and fathered Angela Capranica, JoEllen Moleski, and Kari Gardiner. Ronnie was a husband to Shelia Lawson. Ronnie had several grandchildren: Brandon and Jared Moleski,... View Obituary & Service Information Bright created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories You can reach us 24/7/365 at (309) 543-2244 Copyright © 2025 Hurley Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to look for a new, simple, and fast method of assessing and monitoring indoor race performance and to assess the relationship between 20 s, 60 s, and 2000 m indoor rowing performances of youth rowers to evaluate their anaerobic profile. Results: Mean power decreased with increasing test duration (W20 = 525.1 ± 113.7 W; W60 = 476.1 ± 91.0 W; W2000=312.9 ± 56.0 W) and negative correlations emerged between t2000 (418.5 ± 23.1 s) and W20 (r = −0.952, p < 0.0001) and W60 (r = −0.930, p < 0.0001). Conclusion: These findings indicate that W20 and W60 are significant predictors of 2000 m rowing ergometer performances. Furthermore, normalized W20 and W60 can be used to evaluate athletes and as a reference for planning anaerobic training sessions, on a rowing ergometer. Volume 13 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.828710 This article is part of the Research TopicAdvances in Rowing PhysiologyView all 17 articles Purpose: The purpose of this study was to look for a new and fast method of assessing and monitoring indoor race performance and to assess the relationship between 20 s and 2000 m indoor rowing performances of youth rowers to evaluate their anaerobic profile 17 young able-bodied male rowers (15.8 ± 2.0 years) and W2000) and 2000 m time (t2000) were considered for the analysis 14 athletes (15–18 years) performed a 20 s and 2000 m tests and used this as a control group To define the anaerobic profile of the athletes W20 and W60 were normalized as percentages of W2000 Associations between variables were determined by means of the Pearson correlation coefficient (r) Results: Mean power decreased with increasing test duration (W20 = 525.1 ± 113.7 W; W60 = 476.1 ± 91.0 W; W2000=312.9 ± 56.0 W) and negative correlations emerged between t2000 (418.5 ± 23.1 s) and W20 (r = −0.952 p < 0.0001) and W60 (r = −0.930 Conclusion: These findings indicate that W20 and W60 are significant predictors of 2000 m rowing ergometer performances normalized W20 and W60 can be used to evaluate athletes and as a reference for planning anaerobic training sessions coaches often make use of standardized indoor rowing tests to monitor the effects of their training plans and are also included in the Youth Olympic Games The aim of this study was to look for a new method of assessing and monitoring indoor race performance and to investigate the relationship between the fixed-time 20 s and 60 s all-out tests and the fixed-distance 2000 m indoor rowing performance in youth athletes this work will test the hypothesis that mean power performance during 20 s and 60 s all-out tests could predict the 2000 m performance of youth rowers The institutional review board of the University of Palermo approved the within-subjects experimental design which included 17 male youth (age: 15.8 ± 2.0 years; height 176.1 ± 7.8 cm; body mass: 70.9 ± 10.0 kg) rowers affiliated to the Italian Rowing Federation and finalists in the Italian Men’s Junior Rowing Championship (15–18 years) an independent sample of 14 youth rowers (15–18 years) was considered to cross-validate the findings of the experimental sample After a detailed explanation of the nature and purpose of the study written informed consent to participation was obtained from the athletes and their parents before the commencement of the study Athletes had at least three 3) years of previous rowing training consisting of 18–20 h week−1 according to the recommendations of the Italian Rowing Federation FIC 13 older male high-level athletes (21.1 ± 0.8 years) performed similar 20 s the results of which were used to preliminarily assess whether the tests can be applied to athletes of a different age group During the pre-competitive period of the 2019–2020 season the experimental period included three sessions with a “rest day” in-between during which the participants were required to perform a 20 s Participants were habituated to these tests routinely administrated during the season by their coach body mass and stature were measured by means of a stadiometer and an electronic scale (SECA This was followed by a 15-min standard warm-up eliciting ∼140 beats·min−1 the rowers received verbal encouragement from their coach to perform their best The tests were performed on a Concept2 rowing ergometer (mod fitted with a PM5 monitor) with a 120-drag factor where 1 W = 1 J s−1 and the 2000 m performance time (t2000 Absolute W20 and W60 values were normalized relative to body weight m.s−1) of the 2000 m performance was also calculated The same sequence was used in the counter-test group a stepwise regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between V2000 to plot the anaerobic profile of the youth rowers absolute W20 and W60 values were expressed as percentages of W2000 Correlation between 2000 m rowing ergometer performance time (t2000) and anaerobic characteristics of the 17 participants are the findings from preliminary tests on a cohort of older athletes The relationship between the 2000 m performance time (t2000) and mean power (W20) during the 20 s all-out test The relationship between the 2000 m performance time (t2000) and mean power (W60) during the 60 s all-out test Anaerobic power profiles of the 17 youth athletes expressed through the percentages of the mean power W20 and W60 during the 20 and 60s tests with respect to the 2000m actual performance The measured W20 and W60 values of the 13 additional older volunteers (mean age 21.1 ± 0.8) and the percentage difference between the achieved 2000m event speed and model predicted speed for a 2000m event The main findings of this study were the definition of 1) the mathematical model to predict actual 2000 m indoor rowing performance and 2) the anaerobic profile of youth rowers. Furthermore, this study substantiates the significant correlation between average power outputs of 20 and 60 s (Cataldo et al., 2015; Cerasola et al., 2020) and the time to complete 2000 m indoor rowing performance More specifically, W20 and W60 resulted in the most significant variables for predicting t2000, probably due to the relevant combined contribution of the alactacid and lactacid anaerobic metabolisms, respectively (Jensen, 1994). According to Steinacker (1993) senior elite athletes compete in a typical rowing race in the single scull reach a mean power of 450–600 W during the first 10 s of the initial phase and 400–500 W during the 60 s of the final phase youth athletes reached similar mean power values during the 20 s (e.g. 340–690 W) and 60 s tests (e.g. which substantiate their good athletic level Finally, with respect to the literature (Cosgrove et al., 1999; Riechman et al., 2002; Cataldo et al., 2015; Cerasola et al., 2020) the integration of W20 and W60 in the mathematical model for the prediction of 2000 m speed provides a better evaluation of performance (e.g. < 3% error) and further evidence on the relevance of testing anaerobic capacity of youth athletes Before concluding it is important to highlight the strengths and limitations of the present work The main strengths of this work are the novelty and implications of the findings which are of significant practical importance within the context of rowing federations and clubs as monitoring tests and talent identification the anaerobic power curve shown in this study could help the coaches to define different levels for anaerobic intensities to monitor the effectiveness of their training plan and to identify and promote talents by predicting athletic success in 2000 m competitions (Maestu et al. In considering that this study is limited to the peculiar sample of finalists in the Italian Men’s Junior Rowing Championship further studies are needed to verify whether these tests are useful for the evaluation of youth rowers of different athletic levels with coaches ranking athletes on the team in a controlled environment The findings of this study not only provided valuable insights into the evaluation of the anaerobic capability of youth athletes but also a good prediction model for their 2000 m speed performances coaches should consider the 20 and 60 s all-out tests also for talent identification and progress considered to be complementary approaches to measure rowing performance and the rowing community has not yet determined which of these might be more valuable particularly in view of the fact athletes often take part in different types of events It is thus essential that future studies would also look at the peak power as well as other variables which could be predictable through the quick 20 and 60 s tests it is envisaged that such limitations can be addressed through further studies and tests ideally conducted by independent researchers particularly in view of the fact that a major strength of this work is the relative simplicity to carry out the proposed 20 and 60 s tests their role in the talent identification process and as a monitoring tool and their ability to make accurate and fast predictions or creating anxiety hence allowing more time/rigorous training to follow within the same session and This makes them ideal for routine monitoring of athletes: a 20 s all-out row will practically go unnoticed and is hardly going to make an impact on the rest of the training session the 20- and 60-s tests could be a valuable tool to routinely assess youth athletes during training sessions they could be considered a more feasible and accurate option to predict 2000 m performances with respect to the assessment VO2max the proposed mathematical model could offer coaches a simple workout to propose to athletes to predict their performance with a frequency greater than the test of 2000 m that is not commonly used in training due to the great effort required The raw data supporting the conclusion of this article will be made available by the authors The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by the University of Palermo Written informed consent to participate in this study was provided by the participant’s legal guardian/next of kin All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version The authors are grateful for the funding for this research received from the University of Novi Sad JG gratefully acknowledges the support of the project A-ROW financed by the Malta Council for Science and Technology through FUSION: The R&I Technology Development Programme 2018 The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as 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The United States’ weekend killing of Osama bin Laden led to a discussion of justice in a Glenwood High School classroom Monday Students in teacher Steve Welch’s American government course have been studying two films about the War on Terror “Fahrenheit 9/11” by filmmaker Michael Moore the War on Terror and its coverage in the media “FahrenHYPE 9/11” is a documentary released the same year that challenges Moore’s documentary “Students want something that’s reasonable How is it that this is being referred to as justice?” the two dozen seniors – who were in elementary school when the Twin Towers were hit on Sept 2001 – discussed whether it was appropriate to celebrate bin Laden’s death reactions to President Barack Obama’s speech Sunday night and finally said he believes the killing was “something that definitely needed to be done.” He said he remembers hearing about the Sept “They didn’t really tell us about it at school,” Anderson said “My mom was kind of worried and kept me inside for a bit I didn’t really understand what was going on at the time said the killing was a “big turning point.” that it definitely gives a lot of people hope,” Lex said “People might have been starting to think that troops were there for no good reason I feel like we’re going to have more people willing to go into the military knowing that stuff is actually being done.” said he has mixed feelings about the death it’s just exciting more anger and dedicating his people even more to his cause,” Capranica said He said bin Laden’s death will make America safer not so much for the fact that we killed him but that we would be safer because of that,” Walters said but it’s also about the fact that it’s closure for 9/11.” A handful of Glenwood students carried American flags through the halls during the day Monday An outside investigation into former Springfield Park District Police Capt Jonathan Davis released Friday revealed nine allegations of misconduct but ultimately recommended he be returned to active duty with a remediation plan resigned Wednesday after being on paid administrative leave since Jan park district officials had not disclosed the nature of the allegations that led to Davis' paid suspension — none of which were criminal Springfield Park Board President Leslie Sgro said The park board discussed the investigation for about an hour Friday behind closed doors before releasing the 14-page investigation conducted by Jeffrey Wilday of law firm Brown focused on the allegations and not Davis' recent comments claimed he was forced out in retaliation for "speaking out against racism and corruption," and he added that being on leave caused "un-repairable damage to my reputation in the professional law enforcement community and the public eye." has filed complaints with the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Sgro said Friday that she "strongly disagreed" with Davis' categorization of being forced out in retaliation "We have zero tolerance for any unfair treatment of any employee," she said The outside investigation pointed to Davis' removal from the Fraternal Order of Police union in September as a key turning point in his behavior and relationship with park district administration believed he was removed from the police union so he could be fired more easily Park district administration maintained that the reason was because he was an administrator and therefore wasn't eligible to be in the union Here is a closer look at the nine allegations against Davis: * Improperly conducted the destruction of evidence and property stored in the police department's evidence room Wilday wrote that the destruction of evidence was the most serious Davis directed park district officer Nick Capranica to destroy all evidence stored by the department for the years 2004 along with drugs and other contraband found in the parks not associated with any criminal cases because the evidence room needed to cleaned out Davis opted to burn the items in a trash barrel located outside the park district police headquarters in Washington Park Capranica questioned Davis about the propriety of destroying evidence without the approval of the Sangamon County state's attorney's office Davis said he tried to reach the state's attorney and believed he had done his "due diligence." The investigation found that park district police didn't have a policy regarding the destruction of evidence or property Davis elaborated on the allegation in a phone interview Friday saying it had been past practice by former park police chiefs to destroy evidence by placing it in a garbage can and having it crushed He also pointed out that the burning occurred on a cold day in January when nobody was at Washington Park "I didn't want to take the chance of having an evidence bag fly out of a garbage truck," he said "It's not uncommon for police departments to burn things." * Failure to secure police department firearms While Davis was suspended for 10 days on Jan 11 for failing to monitor a park ranger's time cards patrol officers found a number of weapons in his office that were not locked in the department's gun cabinet Davis confirmed that there were four or five "military rifles" in his office He said the guns were part of a federal lease program with the U.S He added that the guns were technically not property of the department and the guns didn't have ammunition with them an email written by a patrol officer contradicted parts of Davis' account handguns and boxes of ammunition were found in the office There were also boxes of ammunition to the rifles Davis referenced But the investigation found that Davis didn't violate any rules because the department did not have a policy that addressed securing weapons * Failed to wear his captain's uniform on a regular basis Patrol officers said Davis regularly wore a golf shirt and khaki pants while on duty rather than his uniform Davis said he stopped wearing his uniform regularly when he was removed from the union representing park district police officers although officers interviewed disputed that statement Davis said the reason he wore business casual clothes was because he was limited by administration to being on patrol no more than 20 percent of the time officers regarded Davis adversely for his decision to not wear his uniform * Failed to log in to Sangamon County Central Dispatch while on duty Davis rarely logged in to the Sangamon County Central Dispatch system after he was removed from the union Sangamon County dispatch is a hub of law enforcement activity by which dispatchers know which officers are on duty as well as their availability to answer calls for assistance Davis said he felt logging in to the system created a burden on dispatchers because they were required to periodically check on him and he wasn't always available as an administrator He also said it wasn't important for dispatchers to be able to reach him because he was rarely on patrol * Failed to respond promptly to inquiries from park district patrol officers Park district patrol officers described Davis as someone who did not want to be bothered unless it was absolutely necessary officers felt a text message was preferred over a phone call Davis said he wanted his patrol officers to be as self-reliant as possible and that he wanted officers to call with proposed solutions and not questions of what to do Davis also said officers usually communicated through text messages and that he did not carry his phone with him at all times * Failed to perform in a professional manner appropriate for the commanding officer of a police department The investigation found that Davis did not take the decision to be removed from the union well and viewed it as the park district wanting to fire him Davis allegedly "violently" pried his nameplate off his office door Patrol officers told Wilday they found it inconsistent to be disciplined by a fellow union member was that Davis would lock his officer door every time he left Davis confirmed he always locked his door because he did not want officers viewing any confidential documents on his desk * Regularly failed to report for duty in a timely manner or remain on duty through the end of his normal workday Patrol officers interviewed said Davis frequently reported for duty after 8 a.m and left the office before the beginning of the 3 p.m Wilday wrote that it was impossible to know if that was the case because he couldn't cross-check it with central dispatch since Davis rarely logged in Wilday found that before being removed from the union Davis reported for duty on time and completed his shifts Davis said Friday that he would regularly adjust his schedule because he would have to often work in the evenings * Failed to cooperate with park district administration Park district executive director Derek Harms and attorney Justin Reichert said Davis had a history of being uncooperative since 2013 when he was told the park district's police force would be reduced by attrition because of budget issues Davis said he was upset that Harms let officers come to him with issues which undermined his authority as commanding officer the reason officers went to Harms was because they felt tension with Davis and didn't believe he'd listen to them * Failed to effectively lead and command the park district's police department Wilday did not provide any additional details on this allegation — Contact Jason Nevel: jason.nevel@sj-r.com, 788-1521, twitter.com/JasonNevelSJR Baby songbirds learn to sing through trial and error by imitating their fathers but how exactly do chick brains know when they are hitting the right notes finds that the brain chemical dopamine plays an active role in “teaching” young birds to sing Previous research has shown that an increase in dopamine activity reinforces actions that yield rewards – such as when a monkey presses on a lever and receives food or juice – cuing the brain to repeat that action when a monkey presses the lever and expects a reward but doesn’t get it that disappointment causes dopamine levels to decrease no one has known whether dopamine reinforces learning in tasks where an animal must evaluate whether an action matches an internal goal “When you are practicing piano and you play the right note does your brain signal that note in the same way as when you’re thirsty and you get delicious juice this is the case,” said the paper’s senior author Jesse Goldberg Capranica Fellow in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior a postdoctoral researcher in Goldberg’s lab the researchers first had to trick a singing zebra finch into thinking it made a mistake If the bird sang a tune that went “abcd,” the researchers altered the tune so it sometimes heard ”abcc.” Next the researchers recorded the activity from single dopamine neurons while the bird practiced its song The experiments revealed that when birds hit the right note when the bird recognized that it sang the wrong note the disappointing outcome led to a drop in dopamine levels Because the anatomy of the dopamine system is basically the same in birds and humans the study may have important implications for motor and speech learning in humans “This is the first demonstration that dopamine evaluates the quality of nonreward-related motor performance,” Goldberg said “Therefore the findings raise the possibility that dopamine monitors the quality of all of our movements.” The results also invite new avenues for research on Parkinson’s disease (which results from a loss of dopamine neurons) addiction (which hijacks the dopamine reinforcement system) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (which result from pathological reinforcement of maladaptive behaviors) The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health Klingenstein Neuroscience Foundation and the Simons Foundation For the four new Springfield police officers sworn in Thursday the term “typical day” probable won’t have much meaning they’ll be called on to offer marital advice said Springfield Police Chief Kenny Winslow giving marital advice to people who have been married 10 or 15 years They will be sorting through issues with teenage children It’s a wide variety of tasks that officers deal with every day knowledge and the ability to be successful.” were sworn in during a ceremony in the city council chamber four other officers were promoted to sergeant and two sergeants were promoted to the rank of lieutenant attended Lincoln Land Community College and is a staff sergeant with the Illinois National Guard pinned on his badge during Thursday’s ceremony Boyle is a graduate of Sacred Heart-Griffin High School in Springfield and received his associate degree in liberal arts and general education from LLCC attended Western Illinois University where he received a bachelor of science degree * Taylor Sullivan is a graduate of Carrollton High School and received a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice from MacMurray College in Jacksonville Sullivan previously worked as a dispatcher for the Scott County Sheriff’s Office “I know that’s kind of the cliché answer that everyone says not to say You can make a difference with just one person.” The four officers promoted to sergeant were: Grant Barksdale Andrew Dodd and Josh Stuenkel were promoted to lieutenant Crouch has been with the Springfield Police Department for 18 years the criminal investigations unit and also as the Crime Stoppers coordinator “Every day you come in and it’s a different day You have to use a different set of skills and you are dealing with different people both with who you work with and on the street,” Crouch said “.. It’s challenging and I think it keeps you fresh You have to be on the top of your game every day you come in because you don’t know what you are going to encounter.” Past swearing-in ceremonies have involved more than four officers Winslow said some of the prospective officers in the current class dropped out of the training program the department is down about five positions The chief said he hopes to bring in a couple more officers in October or November who have already been trained and then fill the rest of the vacancies in January –Contact John Reynolds: john.reynolds@sj-r.com Italy takes cautious steps towards normality being able to frequent Italy’s bars and restaurants on Monday after more than two months of lockdown was akin to ending a strict dietary regime “I can taste the fullness of the flavour much more,” said Sandro Urbani as he drank a glass of white Sangiovanni wine outside Caffè Barrique in the Umbrian town of Orvieto “It’s as if I’ve been on a diet over the past few months and all of a sudden I can eat a slice of salami.” Italians have been given another taste of freedom with the reopening of bars hairdressers and all other retailers on Monday as the country tries to revive its economy after the coronavirus emergency People have been able to buy takeout food and drink since 4 May but now they can resume the embedded cultural habit of having their coffee at the bar Orvieto in Umbria Photograph: bluejayphoto/Getty Images/iStockphotoIn Rome a small and usually thriving bar and restaurant close to the Trevi Fountain “They were happy to be able to come and drink coffee in a proper cup at the bar which is what we’re used to here in Italy,” said the manager “So today felt like an injection of confidence But we can only allow three people inside at a time so for now we’ll only be serving snacks and drinks at the bar But while the bars enjoyed a flurry of customers the first day back for restaurants was more subdued with many still closed as they prepare their premises for reopening “We had around six customers over lunchtime,” said Chiara Gargioli of Armando al Pantheon family-run trattoria in Rome’s historic centre Italy was the first country in Europe to enforce a nationwide lockdown and is gradually emerging from it parks reopened and people were allowed to visit relatives and partners there has been a sustained fall in the coronavirus death and contagion rate Tourists take a selfie in front of the Trevi Fountain Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPAAs part of the ongoing phase two which has been called “living with the virus” civil liberties now include being able to travel freely within individual regions and to see friends Restrictions on inter-regional travel will be lifted from 3 June But while people are venturing out more and businesses can trade again for the most part they are doing so cautiously Along Orvieto’s main thoroughfare only one restaurant Other restaurants are expected to follow suit later this week Owners need to ensure that tables are at least 1 metre apart and are disinfected between sittings Customers must pre-book and wear masks as they enter a restaurant and whenever they leave their tables Staff must wear masks and gloves at all times Hand disinfectant and plastic gloves are available for customers outside Gallo d’Oro before they enter we just wanted to try and get going again and regain some sort of normality even though our expectations were not high,” said Titiana Corbi “A few people have called out of curiosity but they were keen to get back the hairdresser who runs a salon a short walk away from Gallo d’Oro “People booked before today and had to specify exactly what they wanted over the phone The distancing rules have so far worked really well.” a young woman raped in her dorm room or a bathroom at a fraternity party wouldn’t have said a word She certainly wouldn’t have told a dean or her roommate knowing they probably wouldn’t believe her She might have told herself that it wasn’t really rape She might have reasoned that it was no big deal just part of the normal college “experience.” Or that it was her fault In reality at least 6 in every 1,000 women will be sexually assaulted during college according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics yet only 20 percent of victims ever report it And those who do speak up have often seen their efforts amount to nothing failed by the schools they trusted to protect them campuses from Brown and Harvard to UC Berkeley and USC have been thrown into tumult as students have demanded change and used federal laws to compel schools to act 91 colleges and universities across the country are being investigated under Title IX the 1972 law banning sex discrimination in schools for mishandling cases of rape and sexual assault Many institutions are also being scrutinized under the Clery Act which requires schools to disclose crimes on or near campus who was raped and murdered by a sophomore in the spring of her freshman year holding aloft their own bedding to support survivors of sexual assault at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia nearly 150 students walked out of classes over the treatment of a freshman who’d reported being raped school officials asked her a barrage of questions: How short was her dress One school that attracted the earliest national attention was the small campus of Occidental College in the northeast L.A Oxy was hit with two federal complaints: One accused the school of mishandling 37 incidents of sexual violence under Title IX (the number would climb to 52); the other of failing to report sexual assaults under the Clery Act many Angelenos knew of the campus only because President Obama had been a student there for two years the private liberal arts college descended into turmoil and alumni assailing Oxy president Jonathan Veitch for his administration’s apathy and incompetence But eventually the movement itself began to fray Since the initial story broke two years ago Veitch has indeed tried to reform the school’s handling of sexual assault claims but with alienated faculty and distrustful students Oxy’s troubles aren’t over yet Danielle Dirks gathered with a group of Occidental College students in her Highland Park bungalow Dirks has been teaching sociology at the campus since 2011; she’d invited the students over for breakfast and a pep talk before driving to the Mid City offices of attorney Gloria Allred Five of the young women were being represented by Allred as she sought redress from the school; they were also part of the Title IX complaint that had been filed that morning Soon they’d be in a press conference disclosing their stories of being sexually assaulted as another student painted their nails with the Title IX symbol Three of the young women had brought their mothers Gloria Allred with Oxy claimants; activists and professors a 42-year-old associate professor of politics “We filed at 2 a.m.!” she said referring to the Title IX complaint she and Dirks had lodged against Oxy Heldman writes about campus rape culture along with topics like sexual objectification for Ms A leader in the battle to reform the school’s policies she’s been working on the issue at Occidental since 2009 and helped found the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition She’s also a frequent guest on Fox News where the striking blond was once called “Dr Thank you so much for being here and supporting each other!” she said in her high voice she became involved in the sexual assault issue when a student named Carly Mee confided in her several of those students stood behind Allred as the 73-year-old media virtuoso sat at her conference table before a mass of cameras and reporters Armored in her signature red jacket with gold buttons Allred described the Title IX complaint against Oxy from rape to retaliation against those who’d spoken out Then Allred delivered some more disturbing news “The last reported rape occurred this last Friday night and was reported to police on Saturday and to Occidental College this past Sunday,” she said The students learned about the alleged rape that night when a CBS2 news van rolled up on campus and a reporter began interviewing students The incident had ignited a protest after Oxy failed to issue a campus alert because ‘there was no ongoing danger of an unknown repeat offense because the student involved was immediately identified and interviewed by the police and by Student Affairs.’ ” A freshman with freckles and wavy brown hair was on the verge of tears as she recalled her story the students and Heldman sat around the conference table and ate lunch while their attorney told a story about a sex discrimination case she’d won “Can you be our commencement speaker?” a senior asked Allred wanted to know how they felt about the event “It’s been a really surreal day,” said one student “This is very empowering for me,” said another The talk continued along those lines until Allred realized I was still in the room “This is just for the moms and students,” she said frowning from across the table before asking me to leave Occidental College defines rape as the act of any kind of sexual penetration without a person’s consent If a person is incapacitated—from alcohol or anything else—then the sex is not consensual If students are reluctant to file reports with administrators they’re even more unlikely to go to the police One reason is because many colleges fail to tell them they have the option Another is because they’re afraid the police won’t believe them especially if they don’t report the attack right away Others don’t want to go to the police because of the social consequences they face if their case becomes public The weekend after she began her freshman year at Occidental in 2010 Carly Mee was raped twice in her dorm room by the same student he showed up at her room a week later and tried to force her to have sex again But Mee had been drinking that first night and had no memory of it continuing to try to rape her so she could “remember.” He stopped when she started crying and said she couldn’t breathe “I told someone right away,” Mee recalled “He told me I was stupid for letting this person in my room.” I met with her on a weekday morning in April 2013 shortly after she joined the Title IX complaint she was applying to law school and looked more like a job applicant than a student with her dress Initially Mee didn’t tell Oxy officials about her attack because she’d heard the judicial process was extremely “alienating” and “victim blaming.” As the months passed she kept seeing her rapist everywhere—in the dining hall “He’d try to talk to me and follow me from room to room,” she said Then one night in the fall of her sophomore year Mee was hanging out in a dorm room with other students when the name of her attacker came up in the conversation she found herself looking across the room into the eyes of a student named Leah Even before they spoke to each other in private Leah Capranica was a 19-year-old political science major from a small town in Illinois When she was trying to decide whether to report her rape director of student advocacy and accountability and was troubled to hear that her attacker He’d be allowed to remain in the dorm she lived in she says she was told that her attack “wasn’t that serious.” Capranica had been sexually assaulted after her assailant—the same as Mee’s—allegedly spiked her drink at a party and she blacked out (Research has shown that most college sexual assaults are committed by a small number of serial rapists who often use alcohol in their assaults.) Meeting with Harris Capranica felt so defeated that she didn’t end up reporting the incident until the next semester Although her attacker admitted to the assault Mee followed Capranica’s lead and reported her rape By then she was working with Heldman and Dirks The two feminist professors recorded the stories of assault survivors and taught them about their rights under Title IX and how to navigate Oxy’s murky reporting process they thought their administration wasn’t nearly transparent enough which ranged in severity from an apology letter to victims and/or community service to suspension or expulsion Nobody on campus seemed to know how the sanctions were applied or on what criteria they were based The professors also advocated for students in judicial hearings Campus judicial boards were never meant to try serious crimes like rape when the Department of Education sent schools a letter warning that if they didn’t curb sexual violence Colleges scurried to establish panels to adjudicate and punish sex crimes Oxy used a panel of faculty and staff to decide cases Mee was told her case would take three weeks to a month to investigate and her hearing occurred just before finals “Every day I felt I was barely hanging on,” she told me schools are required to help victims with any housing or academic issues Mee asked that her attacker be moved to another dorm because she felt threatened But an administrator told her not to worry “that she had met with my rapist,” Mee said “and that he didn’t seem like the type of person who would do something like that.” She was terrified that he would go after her she received an e-mail from the dean of students according to a confidential copy of the federal complaint that a source provided me Her attacker had been found responsible for two counts of rape and sexual assault; he’d be expelled Avery wrote to say she had accepted the assailant’s appeal it reached the same verdict—but overturned his expulsion Instead he’d be suspended until Mee graduated Avery said that it was because of “extraordinary circumstances.” In January 2013 after being hit with criticism from activists about similar cases Oxy stopped allowing victims and perpetrators to appeal sanctions During Capranica’s judicial process her assailant had repeatedly harassed her—as he later did Mee At one point he allegedly told Capranica: “I like to get confident girls drunk and have sex with them.” But because her case had already been decided his ban from Occidental applied only to Mee’s time there which meant he would be returning to campus before Capranica graduated she worked so she could graduate six months early What Mee and Capranica didn’t realize then was that the man who’d raped them had raped a third woman twice The news that a serial rapist had been roaming Oxy shocked the campus But it was only a hint of the uproar to come When Jonathan Veitch became the 15th president of Occidental College on July 1 It had gone through three leaders in four years considering many college presidents serve a decade Asked about his proudest accomplishments a year and a half into the job “just calming the waters a little bit building morale is an important part of what needed to be done.” worked at Columbia Pictures for more than a quarter century rising to president of worldwide film production and overseeing films like Taxi Driver A historian with degrees from Stanford and Harvard Veitch went on to become dean of the New School’s Eugene Lang College in New York City where he gained a reputation as a prodigious fund-raiser At Occidental Veitch has focused on campus-building projects raising money for the college’s endowment and recruiting more international students The Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition leads a camp out in April 2013 after the lawsuit and federal complaints against the school were announced If you were to pinpoint when faculty began to mistrust their president OSAC gave the president a list of 12 demands describing changes it wanted made in the way Oxy handled sexual violence—from delivering a detailed annual sexual misconduct report to restoring its previous verbal consent policy which required students to get consent before engaging in sexual activity when the activists complained that Veitch had done nothing he said he had agreed only to hear the demands That same month Veitch alienated students and faculty further when he criticized activists for talking to the media about Oxy’s failure to alert the campus about a rape in February—well before Allred blasted Veitch for not alerting the campus about a subsequent rape in April “I’m dismayed that...a number of well-intentioned people have…actively sought to embarrass the College on the evening news,” he wrote in a letter in TheOccidental Weekly By the time of Allred’s April press conference the 127-year-old campus was a national media story with faculty and students fighting for justice and an administration fighting to stem the bad publicity and you know he made mistakes,” Lisa Wade “He didn’t figure out fast enough that he should listen to the people who were experts on this issue and respect them Caroline was walking in with all this documentation but the ways in which our policies were not in compliance with the law She had been going in there for years.” That’s when the faculty gave votes of “no confidence” to Avery and campus counsel Carl Botterud over their poor handling of survivors and their sexual assault complaints with 65 out of 74 professors weighing in against the dean and even more against Botterud While Botterud quietly resigned (for unspecified reasons) Veitch’s initial reaction to the crisis back in 2011 had also dismayed professors “he didn’t respond with ‘Oh The women on my campus are being assaulted That’s something we need to fix in the best possible way immediately,’ ” recalled Wade “He made promises that weren’t kept We increasingly lost faith that he would do the right thing.” Vowing to “make things right,” Veitch had hired Gina Smith and Leslie Gomez of the Philadelphia-based law firm Pepper Hamilton in April to review what went wrong and to draft a new sexual misconduct policy That summer he created the Sexual Misconduct Advisory Board to examine Oxy’s mistakes and offer recommendations based on research of campus sexual assault He hired a survivor advocate to counsel students about their reporting options and a new Title IX coordinator to ensure the school complied with federal guidelines He had the school’s Web pages on sexual assault revamped and established a mandatory online course about sexual assault for students Occidental announced a confidential financial settlement with at least ten of Allred’s clients (several more had retained her after the press conference) in a story by Jason Felch and Jason Song in the Los Angeles Times Veitch acknowledged the school’s problems but he believed Occidental had some of the strongest sexual assault policies in the country If Veitch thought the administration’s problems were over The faculty was still reeling from the revelations that dozens of their students were being sexually attacked by their classmates Professors were seething over how Avery had kept her job several faculty members had been asked to surrender their phones and laptops to O’Melveny & Myers in response to the federal complaints and the prospect of a suit from Allred (she never filed) Although the practice is common in lawsuits professors viewed it as a chilling intrusion into their academic rights When the faculty gathered in Johnson Hall for its monthly meeting in September 2013 members assumed that Veitch would answer their questions about the Allred settlement Instead the president spoke for nearly 30 minutes declaring his administration to be “shell-shocked” by the acrimony directed toward it asserting that the sexual assault battle had damaged his “health and my soul.” About a month later reporter Jason Felch detailed in the Los AngelesTimes how Oxy had failed to include 19 anonymously reported incidents of sexual violence in its 2010 Clery report They’d been discovered by another consulting firm hired by Oxy Times story the college acknowledged the mistake to Felch who followed with a second article on December 7 This one accused Occidental of underreporting another 27 cases of sexual assault in 2012—reinforcing the impression that Oxy was deliberately hiding rapes and assaults For almost three months after Felch’s story ran the administration said nothing publicly about the 27 cases a PR crisis communications firm run by Glenn Bunting a former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times had a bitter fight over a book they coauthored about the Getty Museum Frammolino had been lobbying Oxy as a client since October boasting that he knew Felch’s methods of reporting and could turn around the negative press Times editors to dispute Felch’s account in a PowerPoint presentation Felch was fired and the newspaper published a letter on its Web site retracting the reporter’s December 7 story didn’t qualify under the reporting guidelines for the Clery Act some involved sexual harassment while others occurred off campus Finally the paper revealed this: Felch had also been having an “inappropriate relationship” with a source for this and other stories he had written Whether that was the reason he had been fired wasn’t explicitly clear When journalists asked Oxy for the PowerPoint material about the cases “We agreed to share certain information with the Times to prove that the newspaper got it wrong when it reported that Occidental failed to disclose 27 reports of sexual assault,” Occidental spokesman James Tranquada wrote in a statement to me As for showing the PowerPoint material to me “Consistent with our response to other media outlets we respectfully decline to share the presentation with L.A Felch wrote that he was “dismissed for creating the appearance of a conflict of interest” and that he had voluntarily told his editors about the affair after learning that he was being investigated He noted that he wasn’t shown the new information so he never got the chance to defend his reporting He also said that he repeatedly tried to get Oxy to verify or dispute the number of cases and was stonewalled Oxy contended that Felch never mentioned a specific figure and waited until right before the story ran to ask to interview administrators On March 18 Veitch addressed the scandal at a faculty meeting Many there were outraged that they hadn’t been told about the involvement of Bunting’s firm One professor accused Oxy of “dirty tactics.” Heldman and Veitch argued over the disputed—and endlessly confusing—assault numbers “Why wasn’t it cleared up for us last year?” Heldman asked and went on to out herself as a source for Felch’s story which is why we need an opportunity to talk together,” he said “You have brought me into your office then you have told me I don’t know what I am talking about,” she said “If you think there’s a snowball’s chance that I would sit in a room with you again while you insult me while you have promised things and not delivered—your statement today is the absolute best evidence that any of us have of what you’ve been doing behind the scenes.” It seemed nobody was talking about Oxy’s sexual assault problems anymore the ability of faculty and students to say or publish almost whatever they like no matter how conservative or contrary just days after the rancorous meeting with Veitch Oxy’s faculty received a letter signed by several professors “We write to you today out of concern for the well-being of the college,” it began the letter seemed to blame Heldman and Dirks for the “polarization” of the faculty and the administration “I signed it because I feared we had a no-end strategy,” an early OSAC member told me What most faculty didn’t know was that OSAC was fracturing Some of the seniors felt that Heldman was trying to exert too much control over the group She wanted OSAC to stage a “Scarlet Letter” protest against Veitch where they’d all show up on campus wearing scarlet A’s It was Veitch and his consultants for the L.A who were to blame for the public admission that a professor had been sleeping with its reporter “She wrote us an extremely long text message how she never trusted any of us,” recalled one of the students who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation All of us were crying.” In April the students deleted their hero from OSAC’s Facebook page and announced that from then on Things were also getting tense between professors who’d been involved in the movement One early OSAC member said that in June 2013 Heldman kicked her out of the organization “She didn’t like how I was handling things,” the professor recalled “She decided I wasn’t in the inner circle anymore.” warning of this person’s credibility after I mentioned speaking with her “However she may be presenting to you she is working against the struggle as we see it on campus.” From then on Heldman didn’t respond to my e-mails That same month I learned that Heldman and Dirks had split For the movement’s sake they were trying to keep it quiet to maintain a united front but those who knew found the news unthinkable The two had been writing a book on campus rape Any time activists and students referred to them Heldman had even tweeted a photo of the two leaning together Dirks met me one afternoon in August at an Eagle Rock diner where she dashed in wearing workout clothes She had a Pilates appointment across the street part of an effort to take better care of herself “I am really so scared,” she said as she discussed the falling-out Her relationship with Heldman had been strained for months a casualty of the incessant media attention on and power struggles in the movement After they launched the national student-faculty advocacy group End Rape on Campus the Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker came to Oxy to work on his film about the college sexual assault epidemic The crew was shooting Heldman and Dirks when the director interrupted Dirks figured the students made for a more compelling story Hadn’t the professors handed this documentary to Dick Why were the media focusing so much on Clark and Pino “She accused me of not being in the trenches with her and turning against her,” Dirks added she told Heldman she was going to resign from EROC “I didn’t realize the extent of how much of that stress was her,” Dirks told me She cofounded the national group Faculty Against Rape whose mission is to enlist more professors in fighting sexual assault and to protect them against retaliation from their schools Times that a professor had been sleeping with Felch; some on campus assumed it was to influence the paper’s sexual assault coverage At first Heldman pretended to many people—including me—to be the source but several faculty members knew it was someone else Studies show that only 2 to 8 percent of rape and sexual assault cases involve false claims But in the push to end sexual violence on college campuses there’s a growing refrain coming from men found guilty of rape: that the system is now stacked against them 28 law school professors deemed the school’s new sexual assault policy “overwhelmingly stacked against the accused.” And there is the Rolling Stone debacle from last fall in which the magazine backed away from a woman’s claims of being gang raped at a fraternity house at the University of Virginia First the magazine said its trust in the source was “misplaced.” Then it said its reporter had failed by not contacting the alleged attackers confirming the worst suspicions of campus rape deniers “I still remember when I did my first interview and outed myself as a survivor “So it’s hard to see the reactions to her and the assumptions because there were errors in the journalism Students accused of sexual assault at schools including Brown and Swarthmore College have filed charges of their own some of them citing Title IX violations themselves At Oxy there’s been one such suit: In December 2013 a freshman identified as John Doe was expelled after he was found responsible for raping a 17-year-old female student and he ranted about the case on social media That same month a post on Reddit and 4chan about an online form enabling Oxy students to anonymously report sexual assault led to men’s rights activists swamping the Web site with more than 550 fake complaints In February 2014 his lawyers argued Jane Doe had actually assaulted him and she’d given him oral sex while he was “intoxicated” and therefore couldn’t consent She also texted a friend that she was going to have sex which had long been criticized for not punishing rapists enough was suddenly being accused of going too far John Doe’s lawyers released about 200 pages of confidential documents The young woman had never wanted to go public and now the excruciating details of her experience were splashed online When Oxy later went to court to have the material sealed or redacted Then a civil liberties group called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education rallied in defense of John Doe unleashing a torrent of online harassment from trolls aimed at female witnesses On June 6 she received an e-mail from a man in Missouri: “What kind of a radical fucking man hating dyke are you?” it read nail your pussy shut and go wait tables before you harm someone else.” I’m making sure we’re dotting our I  ’s and crossing our T  ’s,” said Veronika Barsegyan from behind her desk at the Campus Safety office and Barsegyan was a month into her job as Oxy’s Clery coordinator managing the daily crime log and recording every incident The 28-year-old was scrambling to pull together the annual Clery report it was supposed to contain Occidental’s crime numbers for the previous three calendar years “I’m auditing and auditing and auditing to make sure we are completely compliant,” said Barsegyan A burly 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department For years it was Nieto’s job to ensure that Oxy’s rape and sexual assault numbers were correct Although she relied on departments to pass along sex crime statistics to her sometimes the reports fell into a black hole When Oxy’s Clery Report came out on October 1 it revealed that the number of reported sex offenses surged from 12 incidents in 2011 to 64 incidents in 2013 Although 34 of those occurred in previous years and even more had been reported anonymously this meant that students were finally coming out of the shadows to report Another person who’ll strongly influence Oxy’s ability to improve the way it handles sexual assaults is Ruth Jones Occidental’s new Title IX coordinator In September California became the first state in the country to adopt what’s regarded as the best policy to help students navigate sex Part of Jones’s job is to make sure everyone understands the state’s affirmative sexual consent policy for colleges and universities—commonly known as “yes means yes.” (Unless someone says yes to having sex there should be no assumption that it’s consensual.) A lawyer in her sixties Jones has a patchwork of recent federal laws—the White House “Not Alone” report the Senator Claire McCaskill legislation to reduce the prevalence of college sexual assault—to consider People want to get this right,” she said “and there’s not a common view of how to do that.” While colleges like Dartmouth have moved to mandatory expulsion for students who commit certain kinds of sexual assault Occidental has yet to adopt such a stiff or uniform approach At Oxy a student found responsible for rape or sexual assault does face suspension or possible expulsion; however the policy still doesn’t make clear how punishments are decided Is one form of sexual assault worse than another But Jones’s hardest job may be restoring confidence in the reporting process professors would have to tell the college if a student privately came to them about a rape or sexual assault had advised that because of trust issues at Oxy If students knew their information wouldn’t be confidential they wouldn’t come to their professors a month later a student I’ll call Mary contacted me Mary claimed she knew two students—one male one female—who’d been sexually assaulted by the same male student but hadn’t reported because they were leery of the process after repeated delays for more than a year It was supposed to illuminate how Occidental had found itself in this mess Instead the 130-page document absolved the administration of almost any blame and singled out just about everyone else especially activists—presumably OSAC—writing that their tactics were standing “in the way of candid and collaborative communication between activists and administrators.” In a prepared statement his spokesperson provided me characterized the report as being “a frank and productive discussion.” But in an e-mail to me chastised Smith and Gomez’s account of Oxy’s troubled history the President and the Board of Trustees have missed another valuable opportunity to bring the campus together,” wrote Tinberg a professor of mathematics at Occidental since 1980 While some faculty members disapproved of OSAC’s methods “we all have stood together to make sure our students are safe And their fire and passion alone helped to ignite a nationwide movement that we should be proud of.” If anyone had helped create the toxic culture on campus and his sheer stubbornness that has impeded him,” she wrote The report was just “another public relations effort that blames faculty and staff and even the White House for the inability of our college leaders to do the right thing.” In his statement Veitch focused on the positive: “We now have a deeper the actions of the recent past seem to say plenty When I checked Oxy’s daily crime log leading up to December 21 there were two rapes and one sexual assault reported for the entire year of 2014 None of them occurred in 2014 but were reported retroactively not a single sexual assault occurred in 2014 Either Occidental has completely solved its rape problem concluding the process isn’t worth it Mona Gable wrote about Pasadena City College professor Hugo Schwyzer in the April 2014 issue This feature originally appeared in the February 2015 issue of Los Angeles magazine Thelma Golden will celebrate Lauren Halsey and U.K.-based singer Griff will take the stage featured A-list designers and Otis College standouts who earned scholarships for innovation in Fashion Design lawyers say Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe showed injuries consistent with a dog attack and plan to present a case against Chloe a German Shepherd who was re-homed by the owner's of the house where the cop's body was found in a snowbank Magazine’s takeaways on five notable topics from President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term consumers are stocking up on household items and bites from THEBlvd and Hinoki & the Bird This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. 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I tried chocolate from Taiwan and some Hungarian snacks, my friends tried some herb liqueur from Germany”, said student-fencer Kanyapat Meechai from Thailand. After strolling through the corridors of the venue, spirit and food tastings participants once again met in the center of the Congress Hall for short cultural presentations. After anchoring a show fight held by two of her fellow students, Meechai said, “I am really proud that we were able to present our traditional sport and typical costumes.” Prior to the Fair, of course, there was another day full of plenary sessions and workshops focusing on the Forum’s sub-theme of Dual Career. Two-time Olympic champion and former artistic gymnast Svetlana Khorkina gave a lecture on the importance of getting additional education for athletes and being flexible in the professional sphere. Laura Capranica and Andrew Guy Taylor lecturing on the virtues of dual career student-athletes   Prof. Dr. Laura Capranica, President of the European Athlete as Student Network (EAS), critisised the lack of awareness amongst students when it comes to programmes that can help them to realise their potential when retired. The growing popularity of such programmes is significant not only for athletes who retire from sports, but also for young athletes who still decide on their vocation, she said. Distinguishing themselves in studying and acquiring knowledge – both descriptions that fit well with the participants of this year’s FISU Forum. © International University Sports Federation Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.00386 The regular monitoring of physical fitness and sport-specific performance is important in elite sports to increase the likelihood of success in competition This study aimed to systematically review and to critically appraise the methodological quality and feasibility of the sport-specific performance assessment in Olympic combat sports like amateur boxing A systematic search was conducted in the electronic databases PubMed Studies in combat sports were included that reported validation data (e.g. 39 studies were eligible for inclusion in this review The majority of studies (74%) contained sample sizes <30 subjects 1/3 of the reviewed studies lacked a sufficient description (e.g. expertise level) of the included participants Seventy-two percent of studies did not sufficiently report inclusion/exclusion criteria of their participants the description and/or inclusion of a familiarization session (s) was either incomplete or not existent Sixty-percent of studies did not report any details about the stability of testing conditions Approximately half of the studies examined reliability measures of the included sport-specific tests (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = 0.43–1.00) Content validity was addressed in all included studies criterion validity (only the concurrent aspect of it) in approximately half of the studies with correlation coefficients ranging from r = −0.41 to 0.90 Construct validity was reported in 31% of the included studies and predictive validity in only one Test sensitivity was addressed in 13% of the included studies The majority of studies (64%) ignored and/or provided incomplete information on test feasibility and methodological limitations of the sport-specific test insufficient information or a complete lack of information was provided in the respective field of the test application Several methodological gaps exist in studies that used sport-specific performance tests in Olympic combat sports Additional research should adopt more rigorous validation procedures in the application and description of sport-specific performance tests in Olympic combat sports volleyball) but not in Olympic combat sports the purpose of this study was to systematically review the available literature and to critically analyze the methodological quality and feasibility of sport-specific tests in Olympic combat sports The experimental approach comprehended five-steps (Khan et al., 2003): Step 1: Framing questions for the review; Step 2: Identification of relevant works; Step 3: Assessment of the quality of studies; Step 4: Summary the evidence; and Step 5: Interpretation of the findings The research question focused on sport-specific testing in Olympic combat sports (e.g. A Boolean search strategy was applied using the operators AND According to the main topic of the present study Flow of information through the different phases of the systematic review Details related to sport-specific tests' characteristics Based upon six criteria adapted from a risk-of-bias evaluation in a previously published review of tests examining sport-related skill outcomes (Robertson et al., 2014), two authors (HC and YN) carefully reviewed all eligible articles for quality appraisal (Table 3) the number of participants included to establish validity/reliability/sensitivity of the sport-specific test; (ii) details related to study participants (e.g. and anthropometric details); (iii) presence of clearly established inclusion/exclusion criteria; (iv) presence of familiarization session(s) prior to sport-specific testing or not; (v) presence of clearly established interval between test-retest assessments; and (vi) stability of testing conditions (i.e. whether testing equipment and environmental conditions remained stable between sessions or not) as well as participants between sessions the following information was extracted: author(s) detailed tables reporting major characteristics of the selected studies were created A synthesis of major findings reported in the included articles was submitted to a thematic analysis deemed relevant for generating inferences The proportion of studies including athletes competing at national or international level was 41% that including mixed samples of national/international and regional/sub-elite level athletes was 33% and that recruiting club/regional level participants was 26% The sex representation of the participants was 61% for male athletes No information on the sex of the participants was present for 6% of the studies Frequency of Occurrence (%) of publication years of the scientific contributions included in the systematic literature review The methodological characteristics of the included studies are shown in Table 3 Whilst only 28% of the included studies provided detailed inclusion/exclusion criteria 26% provided a partial description and 46% did not include any information Only 38% of the studies scheduled one or more familiarization sessions for their participants and 2% provided partial details on this relevant aspect whereas the majority of the studies (60%) presented a lack of information Studies focusing on reliability (61%) included intervals between experimental trials ranging from 1 day to 11 weeks with 57% of them adopting a 1-week interval information on this issue was lacking in 39% of studies Only 28% of the studies provided detailed information on stability of testing conditions with 59% of them not presenting any information and 13% providing partial information Methodological quality of eligible studies The MDC95% of the sport-specific test was addressed in 8% of the reviewed studies Feasibility and methodological limitations of the sport-specific tests were sufficiently explored in 36% of the included studies with 51% providing partial details and 13% ignoring this aspect Information related to the expected use and context of the test was adequately pointed out in 72% of the included studies Eighteen percent reported limited information on this aspect and 10% ignored this relevant sport-specific aspect Sport-specific test duration was described in detail in 74% of the included studies and the remaining 26% did not report any information on this issue The main goal of this study was to examine the methodological quality This is the first study detailing the different methodological approaches adopted so far with sport-specific tests in Olympic combat sports Results of this study highlighted: (1) emerging academics conversation on sport-specific tests in Olympic combat sports; (2) a disparity in the gender representation of participants; and (3) several methodological gaps in the study of sport-specific testing in Olympic combat sports Since 2006 a substantial increase in publication activity has been observed, coherently with the quest of sport-specific testing procedures to evaluate Olympic combat sport athletes. At present, research in sport-specific testing of Olympic combat sports could be considered entering its intermediate stage (Edmondson and McManus, 2007) being characterized by not fully established theories and several methodological shortcomings a lack of a “gold standard” technique to assess sport-specific outcomes in peculiar combat sport contexts and valid and reliable tools suited to large-scale assessments limits the generalizability of findings in considering that ~40% of the eligible studies focused on judo the need to develop valid sport-specific tests for athletes practicing other Olympic combat sports emerged few studies examined test sensitivity (13%) Feasibility and methodological limitations were partially reported and/or ignored in the majority of the reviewed (64%) studies Detailed information related to the expected use and context of the protocol were either partially reported or ignored in 28% of the studies the sports scholars are urged to intensify their efforts to bridge this imbalance between women's sport participation and scientific information on this specific population future studies are encouraged to establish this important sport-specific testing's aspect one aspect of the three sport-specific properties (i.e. This observation may constitute another gap in the literature because a sport-specific test should cover the whole validity aspects (i.e. a particular focus in the future investigations should be given to examining all validity properties of sport-specific performance testing in Olympic combat sports more research dealing with these two determinant aspects are required future investigations should pay attention to these central sport-specific tests' aspects Because of the variety of statistical approaches used to assess sport-specific measurements properties, it was not possible to perform any meta-analysis (Robertson et al., 2014) compared with other sporting activities such as team sports scientific contributions on combat sports in indexed journals are limited with studies mainly published in non-indexed journals (i.e. gray literature) or remain even unpublished the stringent search approach adopted in this review has neglected information available to coaches in specific technical magazines and websites Establishing valid sport-specific tests that assess the actual physical fitness and/or physiological attributes of Olympic combat sports practitioners still one of the major concerns for sports sciences scholars After reviewing 39 studies in different Olympic combat sports disciplines (e.g. several methodological gaps have been pointed-out These limits may prevent sport-specific testing from being widely used These limitations are mainly related to the small sample size lack of details about the inclusion/exclusion criteria in most of the studies lack of familiarization session prior to testing and paucity of details about stability of testing conditions relative and absolute) have rarely been addressed in the reviewed studies and the available results showed reliability levels ranging from poor to excellent predictive validity was reported in only one study construct validity received less attention by researchers one aspect of the three main validity properties are limited All these concerns may limit the applicability and accuracy of outcomes of sport-specific testing in Olympic combat sports Additional research should adopt more strict validation procedures by addressing reliability and sensitivity in the application and description of sport-specific performance tests in Olympic combat sports predictive validity should receive more attention in future research RB: Assisted on data collection and analysis and worked on manuscript preparation LC: Assisted in study design and worked on manuscript preparation UG: Data analysis and manuscript preparation This study is supported by the open access Publishing Fund of University of Potsdam Validation of a soccer skill test for use with females Reliability of the Uchikomi Fitness Test: A Pilot study Proposal of a new specific cardiopulmonary exercise test for taekwondo athletes Statistical methods for assessing measurement error (reliability) in variables relevant to sports medicine Determination of judo endurance performance using the uchi - 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited *Correspondence: Helmi Chaabene, Y2hhYWJhbmVoZWxtaUBob3RtYWlsLmZy In a letter sent to investigators by the 23-year-old who confessed to the crime he said he stopped at a tobacconist in the capital on the afternoon of March 26 New details emerge regarding the murder of Ilaria Sula the 22-year-old student who disappeared last March 25 in Rome and was found lifeless on April 2 inside a suitcase in a ravine in Capranica Prenestina In a letter sent to investigators by Mark Samson the 23-year-old who confessed to the crime accused of aggravated voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse said he stopped to buy cigarettes at a tobacconist in the capital on the afternoon of March 26 defended by lawyers Fabrizio Gallo and Alessandro Pillitu reportedly reported having met 3 passers-by in the African quarter area: with one of them investigated for complicity in concealment of a corpse was interviewed by the Public Prosecutor this morning at the Rome Police Headquarters "an integration of the statements already made on April 7th was made the Prosecutor's Office needed some passages to be specified – explained the woman's lawyer The accusation against the woman remains unchanged and I reiterate that Mark's father is completely uninvolved in the affair The Prosecutor's Office is trying to reconstruct in the most detailed way possible the chronology of the moments before and after the crime She did not know where Mark would take the body" underlining that the woman answered all the investigators' questions emerged from the analyses carried out on the dash cam an on-board camera found by the investigators coordinated by the additional prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini The traces of coffee found in Ilaria's stomach following the autopsy would instead suggest that the murder occurred on the morning of March 26 Read also other news on Nova News Click here and receive updates on WhatsApp Follow us on the social channels of Nova News on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Telegram the 24-year-old loaded the trolley containing Ilaria Sula's lifeless body into the car and after abandoning it in the wooded area stuffed in a suitcase and thrown off a cliff the 22-year-old student from Terni who disappeared last March 25 in Rome and whose body was found this morning in the municipality of Capranica Prenestina The one who confessed to the murder was her ex-boyfriend After an interrogation at the police station in front of the Public Prosecutor and the agents of the Flying Squad and the San Lorenzo police station the 24-year-old was taken to the Regina Coeli prison It was the 24-year-old who led the police to the place where he hid the young woman's body in a wooded area not far from the provincial road 45 b the intervention of the firefighters was necessary the suspicion is that the student was killed in the boy's house in via Homs in the African quarter of the capital: the apartment the 24-year-old loaded the trolley with the girl's lifeless body inside into the car he threw the phone into a manhole on the streets of Rome I never imagined that he would have done this thing,” said the young man’s uncle as he left the police station “I came here to see how they are,” he added “I never imagined that he could have done this thing I don’t know if his father is also being interrogated.” Dismay not only in Rome but also in Capranica Prenestina "I heard the news at about 8 when there were already police officers the firefighters and even the boy on site" “The suitcase was found halfway between Capranica and Guadagnolo along provincial road 45b – he added – and was 40 or maybe 50 meters into the ravine knowing that none of the young people involved are connected to our Municipality does not comfort us young people are at the center of our attention and knowing that a life was cut short at just 22 years old is devastating” but was a student away from home at La Sapienza University so much so that yesterday her parents filed a complaint at the San Lorenzo police station in the neighborhood where the girl lived with other roommates who had plastered the area with homemade flyers to find their friend and colleague a moment of commemoration was held in front of the Faculty of Statistics at Sapienza University where Ilaria Sula studied a demonstration organized by student groups is planned in Piazzale Aldo Moro Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon The best of Time Out straight to your inbox We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news Sign up for our email to enjoy your city without spending a thing (as 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Whether you’re wandering the alleyways of Naples or marvelling at the ceiling of the Vatican each one is packed to the walls with history heritage and a whole load of impressive architecture.  But so are the country’s villages, and that’s why, back in 2002, a group of mayors formed the non-profit I Borghi più belli d’Italia (which translates to to spotlight these lovely locations’ beauty According to Fiorello Primi, the president of the association who spoke to Matador Network the tourism in these villages tends to grow by around 8 percent once they’re included Recommended: Italy is launching a series of vintage trains for tourists 32 villages (which must have a population of 15,000 or fewer) were evaluated and scored a Roman-era village in northeast Italy which sits on the banks of the Antisone River the 15th Devil’s Bridge and the UNESCO-protected Lombard Temple.  Perched near the French border is a hilltop village from the mediaeval era called Ceriana for the third Sunday) and you’ll get to experience the town’s yearly pork sausage festival.  Gravina is a stunning walled town which is nestled between a hill and the edge of a ravine in Puglia and Capranica Prenestina is a gorgeous spot boasting steep streets and panoramic views in the Prestini Mountains Read on for the full list of the 13 new villages.  Check out our roundup of Italy’s most beautiful towns and villages.  Did you see that these are the world’s most welcoming cities, according to Booking.com Plus: The best romantic ‘dupes’ for Europe’s most popular Valentine’s Day breaks have been revealed.  Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out Travel newsletter for all the latest travel news and best stuff happening across the world Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! tiktokfacebooktwitteryoutubeAbout us Contact us is accused of the murder of the 22-year-old student who disappeared last March 25 in Rome and was found lifeless last April 2 inside a suitcase in a ravine in Capranica Prenestina To kill and dispose of the body of Ilaria Sula He said it himself during the hearing to validate the arrest before the investigating judge in Regina Coeli prison The young man is charged with the crimes of voluntary homicide aggravated by emotional relationship and concealment of a corpse Samson allegedly provided numerous details regarding the crime The 22-year-old allegedly arrived alone on the evening of the 25th at her ex-boyfriend's house in Homs Street the 23-year-old allegedly killed her after seeing a message on the student's cell phone stabbing her with a knife used for breakfast revealed that the girl died from a hemorrhage caused by three stab wounds to the neck along with the rags used for cleaning and a carpet all of which he then threw in a dumpster in the area where he lived Samson allegedly loaded the suitcase containing the body into the car and transported it to Capranica Prenestina a place the confessed criminal knew from previous trips The young man also denied having premeditated the crime to the investigating judge The 23-year-old's story will have to be verified by investigators Following the tests carried out on the car used by Samson which the suspect allegedly threw into a manhole but checks will probably be made on the 22-year-old's PC Investigations are also underway into the movements of the 23-year-old's parents whose position remains under investigation by investigators although when asked specifically about his parents he availed himself of the right to remain silent brings style and sumptuous excess to Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s wonderful and lush staging of Handel’s Alcina  Our correspondent, Tony Cooper, provides a second view of Glyndebourne's production of Handel's Alcina directed by Francesco Micheli with Jane Archibald in the title role. [see Robert's review of the production} Handel loosely based the libretto for Alcina on Riccardo Broschi’s opera comes from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem for such other Handel delights as Orlando and Ariodante.   The work received its first performance at the Teatro Capranica a theatre originally constructed in 1679 by the Capranica family and housed in the early Renaissance Palazzo Capranica the second public theatre to open in the Eternal City but ceased operating as a full-scale theatre and opera-house in 1881 Following the closure of the cinema in 2000 the theatre now functions as a conference and performance venue.   this forgotten three-act opera took flight and Joan Sutherland hit the headlines in the title-role in Franco Zeffirelli’s stylish production at La Fenice in February 1960 seen a couple of years later at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden while Robert Carsen directed another super-charged production for Opéra de Paris in 1999 later seen at Lyric Opera of Chicago Both productions featured Renée Fleming while Cecilia Bartoli wowed her adoring fans in the title-role just before Lockdown at the 2019 Salzburg Festival.  Francesco Micheli’s production for Glyndebourne (the first time the opera has been staged on the South Downs marking Signor Micheli’s Glyndebourne début) is surely up there with the best and as for Canadian coloratura soprano Jane Archibald (who made her Royal Opera House début in the 2013-14 season as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos) her portrayal of the sorceress Alcina is surely up there with the best She delivered the goods in no uncertain terms Her stage presence lovingly matching her vocal prowess she proves a dab hand at seducing every knight that lands on her magical isle but when tired of them ditches them lock stock and barrel and uses her magical powers to turn them into stones plants and wild beast as only a sorceress could do But one thing that this seductive enchantress couldn’t master is conjuring up ‘love’ the most important item on her agenda.   I found Signor Micheli’s production riveting and exciting to the core He pulls up the drawbridge on Renaissance Italy and places the scenario in the northern industrial city of Milan in the Fifties and Sixties when one entered the Glyndebourne auditorium one was faced by a front cloth depicting an abstract impression of the Duomo di Milano set against a detailed image of the Fifties-designed Brutalist building a vast tower-like building forming part of the first generation of Italian modern architecture Its name derives from the name of the 17th-century Spanish politician Alcina’s island in Micheli’s realisation of Alcina becomes a burlesque nightclub named Teatro Lirico (perhaps it ought to be ‘Capranica’) but the action of the opera’s prologue featuring a small group of businessman hints that the theatre is at risk of demolition to make way for large-scale office development The show running at the club is aptly named ‘L’isola d’Alcina’ And the club’s hostess is none other than Alcina with Ms Archibald looking the part from head to toe A brunette sporting a long-flowing hair style and a fitting costume to match (elegantly designed by Italian-born designer Alessio Rosati) she came over as a Fifties-style movie star echoing to a degree Anita Ekberg the star of Federic Fellini’s iconic Sixties movie Although Ms Archibald made a big impression on the show overall her sorceress sister Morgana (sung so eloquently and delicately by Soraya Mafi) made a big impression especially on her entry in the first act dressed as a mermaid lying on a high-moving gantry-type platform operated by a four-person stage team The scene was quite remarkable and visually quite striking with British lighting designer Bruno Poet (who has lit up so many stages worldwide) adding to the overall atmosphere and pleasure of the scene by conjuring up a fantastic lighting scenario.  it was Edoardo Sanchi’s sets that helped the show to tick so freely he created a marvellous candy-coloured free-standing set for the ‘island of love’ adorned by a couple of palm trees with a glitzy shell-designed throne atop of a half-dozen steps and a lot of fancy work in between all his sets ranging from back-stage dressing-rooms to gender-neutral toilets were free standing constantly being moved on and off stage thus keeping the action of the show and its myriad of scenes fast moving that particularly grabbed my fancy was a stylish long glass-topped cocktail bar with high stools finished off by a criss-crossed patterned padded front with a golden-coloured back bar while a theatre box containing a bunch of stage-door johnnies conjured up the plush interior of Teatro Lirico.  The cast were gallant in their respective roles was Svetlina Stoyanova’s portrayal of Ruggiero while Melisso was dutifully sung by Thomas Elwin (taking over the role at short notice from Stuart Jackson) and James Cleverton put in a nice performance as Astolfo.  I was impressed by Rowan Pierce in the boyish role of Oberto searching for his long-lost father he lashes out at Alcina for her beastly wrongdoing For the first time she finds herself wrong footed But the moment when Ruggiero and his former tutor isolated from society and completely spent Her former lovers return to being humans again and they all rejoice and sing of their joy celebrating the triumph of love over evil and magic.  The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment (leader: Huw Daniel) conducted by Jonathan Cohen (artistic director and founder of the British early music ensemble Arcangelo) spun their own inimitable style of magic in the pit delivering a fine and well-balanced reading of the score that didn’t overshadow the singers harbouring such good acoustic properties as it does is the perfect size for Handel and it certainly showed in this performance.  2012) created some amazing stuff for the well-disciplined team of eight dancers comprising Soledad de la Hoz Oihana Vesga not least by some sumptuous dance routines particularly showy when the girls employed peacock feather fans in a grand burlesque manner.  Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee The appliance brand opens its first store in the capital opens its first store in Rome on Via IV Novembre at a UNESCO listed site between Trajan’s Forum the 19th-century Palazzo Capranica del Grillo with protection of internal architectural features renovation of the original flooring and conservation of the natural stone and brick used for the arches The store has two levels for a total of over 300 sqm of which nearly 200 are set aside for sales while the rest of the facility contains offices and archives The company’s most popular collections are on view starting with the handpainted refrigerators made in collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana citrus and “pupi.” The showroom also features the multicolored appliances Cookware by Smeg – Design by @deepdesign the point of sale also presents a large living-kitchen area as a stage for a fine calendar of events for fans of Smeg The largest diffusion magazine in the luxury & design world Privacy Policy(function (w,d) {var loader = function () {var s = d.createElement("script") tag = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.src="https://cdn.iubenda.com/iubenda.js"; tag.parentNode.insertBefore(s,tag);}; if(w.addEventListener){w.addEventListener("load" false);}else if(w.attachEvent){w.attachEvent("onload" loader);}else{w.onload = loader;}})(window the son of Gio Batta Pace and Cecilia née Pace.  He obtained his matriculation certificate in 1906 and proceeded to the Capranica College in Rome to study for the priesthood Pace obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the Capranica College a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University and a doctorate in canon law from the Lateran University Pace was ordained priest in 1913 by his great uncle Archbishop Pietro Pace Three years later the Holy See nominated him canon lector of the Gozo Cathedral when Michael Gonzi was nominated bishop of Gozo Pace was chosen as his secretary and also rector of the seminary he was also professor of dogmatic theology In 1928 Pace was nominated archdeacon of the Gozo Cathedral and in the same year the Holy See conferred on him the title of domestic prelate Pace was consecrated bishop on 17 December 1944 and was solemnly installed as bishop of Gozo on 8 April 1945 Pace presided over the coronation of the Marian shrines of Our Lady of Graces and was laid to rest in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament at the Gozo Cathedral This biography is part of the collection created by Michael Schiavone over a 30-year period. Read more about Schiavone and his initiative here please register for free or log in to your account CRS Cape Premier Yearling Sale - Thursday @ CTICC Home » Breeding » Winterbach Stud – Winners Winterbach Stud – where the horses are lavished with care (Pic- Candiese Lenferna) The Stud has yet again come up with a select quality draft to be presented at the CRS Cape Premier Yearling Sale this Thursday afternoon at the CTICC is by Hawwaam out of Hope Downs and thus a half-brother to an accomplished middle-distance performer and Met entry was at the top of the SA Juvenile rankings in the early 90s Winterbach offers another Hawwaam – Lot 47 ex the Captain Al mare Second dam Soft Landing removed the Gr1 Garden Province Stakes Lot 36 is an unnamed bay colt by Rafeef out of La Volta so a full brother to Gr1 Computaform Sprint winner He is sure to generate significant attention amongst discerning buyers One World’s progeny are making an early splash – Lot 69 is a filly out of Saints Alive won up to the Gr1 level – plenty of Black Type is going back through the generations What a Winter has been around for some time now consistently amongst the top echelon of SA sires The former Equus Champion Sprinter has produced 24 Stakes winners from 502 runners and bay yearlings; Whatastar ex Talitha Borealis looks interesting The mare won five races between 1400m and 1800m and is a half-sister to six-time winner Supercede Winterbach’s final offering is Lot 105 This good-value stallion has produced 37 stake winners from 554 runners and was SA’s leading sire of two-year-olds in 2018/19 For more detailed insights into these yearlings, feel welcome to contact Hendrik Winterbach at 082 465 4433 or via email: [email protected] The Sporting Post will not publish comments submitted anonymously or under pseudonyms.Please note that the views that are published are not necessarily those of the Sporting Post The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday with another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas A Transkei-born horseman who started as a Groom the groundbreaking Lunga learnt the ropes from top men like Mitch Wiese Better known as having raced iconic legend of the turf Pocket Power the affable Marsh Shirtliff is fast making a name for himself in the breeding fraternity On the eve of the launch of the 2025 Champions Season this coming Saturday South African horseracing awoke to a brand new chapter in its history on the Workers’ Day public holiday A longstanding racing man makes a case for four horses he feels should be in the Hollywoodbets Durban July entries A new record price for the Australian Weanling Sale was set at Riverside on Monday when a Stay Inside x Sheidel filly offered by Noorilim Park sold for A$650,000 President Eddie Fenech Adami thanked Archbishop Mgr Joseph Mercieca for his pastoral work over the past 30 years He said in a letter he could personally vouch for the prudence determination and serenity with which Mgr Mercieca did his pastoral duty This counted for difficult times and for times of happiness such as the two pastoral visits by Pope John Paul II and the proclamation of the first three Maltese Blessed Dr Fenech Adami pointed out that Mgr Mercieca's term was marked by a time of profound change and the Maltese were grateful for his wise and prudent leadership He wished him a long life of work for the benefit of the Church in Malta in hope that the Maltese would continue living and increasing the values linked to their identity Mgr Mercieca leaves for Rome today to take part in the 550th foundation anniversary celebration of the Almo Collegio Capranica College This is a seminary which knows its beginning to Cardinal Domenico Capranica in 1457 he will celebrate Mass at St John's Co-Cathedral for couples who married last year he will celebrate Mass for journalists on the occasion of the feast of St Francis de Sales at the Catholic Institute and other source identifying features of newspapers depicted in our database are the trademarks of their respective owners and our use of newspaper content in the public domain or by private agreement does not imply any affiliation with the publishers of the newspaper titles that appear on our site Newspapers.com makes these newspapers available for the purpose of historical research and is not responsible for the content of any newspapers archived at our site.